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Title
Indian cliff dwelling ruins at the junction of Canyon de Chelly and Canyon del Muerto, ca.1900
Creator
C.C. Pierce & Co
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a distant view of the Indian cliff dwelling ruins at the junction of Canyon de Chelly and Canyon del Muerto, ca.1900. The ruins are perched high on the canyon wall. The canyon rim is not visible but the floor of the canyon is.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
14 x 19 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15538
USC-1-1-1-13506 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2538
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15538
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2538.jpg
Subject
Cliff Dwellers
Indians of North America
Cliff-dwellers
Dwellings
Cliffs
Tribal areas
Archaeological sites
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Apache
Arizona
USA
canyons: Canyon del Muerto
canyons: Canyon de Chelly
Source
1-165- [Microfiche number]
2538 [Accession number]
CHS-2538 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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